Leila Hyams — A Daughter of the Stage (1928) 🇺🇸

Leila Hyams is one of the newest of filmland’s newlyweds. But the circumstance of a wedding to a Hollywood business man is not to interfere with her pursuit of a career.

Leila’s ambition is to play Camille and Juliet, and it doesn’t matter to her whether she fulfills this dream on the stage or screen.

Childhood influences were a natural inspiration for Leila’s desire to become an actress. It would have been difficult for her to escape the lure, in view of the fact that her parents, John Hyams and Leila Mclntyre, have long been a famous pair in vaudeville and musical shows.

When she was a youngster she played with them in a musical comedy called The Girl of My Dreams, and toured with them later in vaudeville. A couple of years ago she made her debut in the play Going Crooked, and about the same time played her first bit in the films, in “Dancing Mothers,” with Clara Bow. A lead in “The Kick-off,” with George Walsh, and an important rôle in “Summer Bachelors,” paved the way to a contract with Warner Brothers.

Breeding distinguishes Miss Hyams as one of Hollywood’s most charming film debutantes. She reminds one of Alice Joyce, though she is fair, while Miss Joyce is dark.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928